Majed Abdullah

Majed Abdullah is a Saudi Arabian former professional footballer who played as a striker for Al-Nassr and the Saudi Arabia national team. ¹ He is Saudi Arabia's all-time leading scorer with 72 goals in 117 internationals, Al-Nassr's record scorer and the all-time top scorer of the Saudi Pro League. ¹ He won the AFC Asian Cup with Saudi Arabia in 1984 and 1988 and was nicknamed "the Arabian Pelé". ¹ Neither article read for this record states his religion, and Wikidata carries no religion value for him, so his data record leaves his faith as unknown. ¹²³

Abdullah was born on 11 January 1959 in the Al-Baghdadia district of Jeddah, the second son of Ahmed Abdullah; the Arabic article describes the family as of Sudanese origin. ¹² In the mid-1960s the family moved to Riyadh, where his father worked as manager of Al-Nassr's youth team; Majed first played in goal for his school team before a stand-in appearance as a striker made the position permanent. ¹ Wikidata carries two further birth dates for him — 1 November 1959 and 6 June 1958 — which neither article supports. ³

Abdullah spent his entire club career at Al-Nassr, scoring 189 league goals in twenty-one years. ¹ With him leading the attack, Al-Nassr won five league titles and four King Cups as well as the 1997–98 Asian Cup Winners' Cup, and he finished as the Saudi league's top scorer six times. ¹ He retired in 1998, after Al-Nassr's Asian Cup Winners' Cup final victory over Suwon Samsung Bluewings. ¹

Abdullah scored at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Saudi Arabia's first global tournament, and later that year scored the second goal as Saudi Arabia beat China 2–0 in Singapore to win their first AFC Asian Cup. ¹ He scored twice at the 1988 Asian Cup in Qatar as the Saudis retained the title, and he remains the national team's all-time leading scorer with 72 goals in 117 games. ¹ He finished third in the IFFHS vote for Asia's Player of the Century. ¹

The sources read for this record do not state Abdullah's religion. The English article contains no statement of it at all. ¹ The Arabic article's only religion-adjacent passage recounts that, after his father's death, he missed Al-Nassr's trip to the 2000 Club World Championship and performed Umrah on his father's behalf in the last ten days of Ramadan — a report of practice which the article itself flags as needing a source, and which names no school. ² Wikidata carries no religion value for him. ³ Saudi Arabia's Hanbali tradition is a national milieu rather than a personal attestation, so the data record leaves his faith as unknown.